To anyone that can help.

I have been receiving this:

Creating vista buffers
Creating light buffers...
file init error.
Error opening output file.  Reclaiming memory


This has been happening with the MegaMacPov 0.5a PowerPC.  I have not tried
to render a scene file with POVRay 3.1g to see if I get the same messages.

Any Ideas?

best regrads,

earl ehrig

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In article <398b7cac@news.povray.org>, "Earl Ehrig" 
<ame### [at] softcomnet> wrote:

> Creating vista buffers
> Creating light buffers...
> file init error.
> Error opening output file.  Reclaiming memory
> 
> This has been happening with the MegaMacPov 0.5a PowerPC.  I have not 
> tried to render a scene file with POVRay 3.1g to see if I get the 
> same messages.

Which MegaPOV? The unofficial GUI, or the one with the official GUI?
Also, what file format are you rendering to?
I have had this error when attempting to run more than one copy of 
POV-Ray at once, make sure MacMegaPOV is the only POV running.

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Make sure that your output file type is not PICT. I've had the same problem
rerendering an image with MegaPov when PICT is the output type.

Josh

Earl Ehrig wrote:

> To anyone that can help.
>
> I have been receiving this:
>
> Creating vista buffers
> Creating light buffers...
> file init error.
> Error opening output file.  Reclaiming memory
>
> This has been happening with the MegaMacPov 0.5a PowerPC.  I have not tried
> to render a scene file with POVRay 3.1g to see if I get the same messages.
>
> Any Ideas?
>
> best regrads,
>
> earl ehrig

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Earl Ehrig <ame### [at] softcomnet> wrote:

> To anyone that can help.
> 
> I have been receiving this:
> 
> Creating vista buffers
> Creating light buffers...
> file init error.
> Error opening output file.  Reclaiming memory
> 
> 
> This has been happening with the MegaMacPov 0.5a PowerPC.  I have not tried
> to render a scene file with POVRay 3.1g to see if I get the same messages.
> 
> Any Ideas?
For some reason we have not been able to reproduce this. We did get bug
reports about this.
We have looked at the pict code, which is a modified version of the
official release, and we did find some bugs.
We are almost 100% certain that those bugs are the reason for those
'file init errors'. 

Also, it seems that it was never possible before to use a 'sys' image,
in this case a pict, as input for image_maps etc. We fixed that too.

It is save to tell you now that both input and output will work in 0.6
again.
A nice side effect of this fix is that you will be able to use jpg,
tiff, bmp, png, ... (all formats supported by QuickTime) as input when
you use:
image_map {
      sys "theimage.bmp[tiff],[png],[jpg],...."
}
Naturally, this works for all spots where you can use 'sys' as input.
This will only be in MacMegaPov because it doesn't involve POV-Ray code
:-(.

PS: Nice to see you are back Earl! Our mails to you have bounced back
frequently. We will try again now!

Smellenbergh

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In article <1ef5wgk.1w7vaqi421gtcN%smellenbergh@skynet.be>, 
sme### [at] skynetbe (smellenbergh) wrote:



>
> PS: Nice to see you are back Earl! Our mails to you have bounced back
> frequently. We will try again now!
>
> Smellenbergh
>

Thank you,  I had been upgrading my cpu, and took on a new job at the Utah
Museum of Natural History as their Program Manager for Traveling Exhibits.
As a consequence of the new job I travel occasionaly around the rural areas
of Utah.

earl

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